What is temporal error theory?
Much current debate in the metaphysics of time is between A-theorists and B-theorists. Central to this debate is the assumption that time exists and that the task of metaphysics is to catalogue time's features. Relatively little consideration has been given to an error theory about time. Since there...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 172; no. 9; pp. 2427 - 2445 |
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